Exhibition

'Transparency'- Winter: Ice and Purity

Ice is water frozen into a solid state. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color.

It falls as snowflakes and hail or occurs as frost, icicles or ice spikes. Glass shares many similar qualities, the material shining with light and imbued with subtle hues of liquid transparency.

50 CGS members have been selected to take part in this visually stunning online glass exhibition.

Thank you to all those that submitted a piece of work. For each online gallery show, pieces are juried and selected by the CGS committee. We had a large number of entries for this show and were delighted with the response from members.

A moment in time, frozen after the drop has fallen.
Recycled, textured glass, and copper sulphate.

Contact: oriel@taterdu.plus.com

Artist: Liz Renee

Snow Bowl

Photographer: Liz Renee

Details: 10" x 12" x 12"

pate de verre vessel with lampworked glass

Contact: liz@nartiqueglass.com

Artist: Fiona Bryer

Glacial

Photographer: Fiona Bryer

Details: 400mm x 300mm x 100 mm

Deep blues of cast glass reflecting the heart of the glacier, fading to light as the ice melts

Contact: info@fionabryerglass.co.uk

Artist: Jamie Gray

Frozen Splash

Photographer: Jamie Gray

Details: Fused recycled glass, freeze-n-fuse glass powder leaves

Glass has beautifully transparent qualities, like ice. And, like ice, those transparencies can vary from cloudy to crystal-clear, and hold a variety of colours it steals from its surroundings. Like ice, glass entices to itself, holds onto, and returns light.

Description: This is one of four seasons made for
The Churchill School in Hawkinge, Folkestone, Kent.
They are inspired by childhood memories and in
particular a series of Ladybird books from my
childhood called ‘What to look for in spring,
Summer, autumn and (in this case) winter’.
They were beautifully illustrated by the Welsh
artist C.E.Tunnicliffe. I choose the heron because
I thought that his colours would suit the winter l
andscape. The Christmas tree is taken from one
of the pupil’s drawings.

Contact: martin cheek: mrtncheek@homail.co.uk

Artist: Nathan Sandberg

Paver 2

Photographer: Dan Kvitka

Details: Kilnformed-Sintered Glass

Dimensions: 13" x 12" x 3.5"

Contact: nathansandberg@gmail.com

Artist: Cathryn Shilling

Icebergs

Photographer: Ester Segarra

Details: Free blown glass

Contact: glass@cathrynshilling.co.uk

Artist: Joseph Cavalieri

Metal Bender

Photographer: cavaglass.com

Details: Bender Bending Rodríguez : An alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler. Bender is the main character in the animated television series Futurama. He fulfills a comic, antihero-type role. Artist Joseph Cavalieri has extended a “Mile 0” sign from b

Medium: Hand painted and kiln fired enamels on stained glass, set into a non-rust stainless steel frame with LED lights

Size: 8 x 10 inches
(20 x 25 cm)

Date: 2014

Contact: cavaglass@gmail.com

Artist: Fiona Fawcett

Ice flow 2013

Photographer: Photograph by Jo Howell

Details: 18cm x 18cm x 5cm

Kiln cast glass and copper oxide, cold worked.

Contact: fifawcett@yahoo.co.uk

Artist: Jessamy Kelly

Thaw

Photographer: Shannon Tofts

Details: Clear cast glass with a white cast glass core.

This piece was created in clear kiln cast glass, which has been cold worked, sandblasted and diamond cut. The work is like a solid block of ice, not yet melting it represents a frozen moment in time of an ancient landscape.

The narrative of this series of work refers to the stripping back of landscape to reveal the internal scarring of the land. The work reviews the geological history of landscape alongside the mark of man. This new body of work was inspired, by a residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire; which was funded by the Naked Craft Network.

Contact: jessamy_kelly@hotmail.com

Artist: Adriana Brinsmead-Stockham

Icebergs

Photographer: A Brinsmead-Stockham

Details: Kiln-cast, cold-worked, Gaffer glass

Icebergs are viewed by some as the epitome of Ice and Purity. Others may see them as a visible demonstration of our interaction with (or destruction of) our planet and the gradual disappearance of glaciers as our world warms up. But whatever the opinion is, they are always a thing of beauty, majesty and awe.

Contact: adriana@glassrebel.com

Artist: Eri Maeda

SHIZUKU-008

Photographer: Chulrang Yoon

Details: 6 x 5.5 x 11.5 cm, cast crystal glass

SHIZUKU means drops in japanese.

Contact: eri.m@erimaeda.com

Artist: Saman Kalantari

Snowflake

Photographer: Saman Kalantari

Details: 20x20x7 CM

Kiln-casted
2010

Contact: www.samankalantari.com

Artist: Mike barrett

Melt

Details: Transparent architectural form

Ornela lead crystal

Contact: Mike Barrett

Artist: Nicola Thompson

The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer; they arise from sense perception amd one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

Photographer: Nicola Thompson

Details: Panel with fused glass and mild steel. 40cm x 40cm

A piece for the garden one panel hanging moving and another rigid in the ground below. All pieces vary demonstrating the change of season, melting ice. Transparency belongs to the form both metal and glass.

One from a series of three objects which used Antarctica as their theme. The objects were blown in colourless glass and then dissected, using the diamond saw, cutting at different angles, before reassembling into their current forms. All edges were polished, whilst the outer curved surfaces were given a light sand blast, to give the impression of the semi-translucence of certain forms of ice. This piece, as with the others, all lean over slightly. They are arranged on black glass plinths in order to give a deliberate reflection of the main piece. These characteristics can be observed on images of ice shelves, both the inclinations and the reflections on still seas.

Artist: Julie Light

Crucible

Photographer: Julie Light

Details: A combination of casting, fusing and lost wax casting coldworked to create different levels of transparency

I have chosen water and ice trays as one way to explore the transparency of both water and glass.

Water is restful and calming, when frozen as snow and ice it is still and quiet. Glass with heat in the kiln can transform from solid to liquid and back again, as water does with cold in a freezer.

I use the lost wax process for these pieces, casting multiple’s of ice cube trays in wax then using these for a mould that, once the wax is removed, is filled with glass in the kiln. The work is then cold worked and bonded with epoxy to create base.

In this Ice Table the top is cloudy with veils and hints at movement in the water, while the curved, kiln slumped legs create another sense of movement and change as ice becomes water.

Contact: 07947177029

Artist: Anne Arlidge

"Meltwater" Ice Core

Photographer: Anne Arlidge

Details: Cast, cut and polished. Max. height 14 cm

Glass can make a permanency of ice, catching the reflective and refractive qualities as light changes. These small segments are not just to be seen in their relationship to each othere, but to be held in the hand to enjoy the beauty of what we are losing with the retreating ice.

Contact: anne@orcharddene.com

Artist: Angela Hume

Harmony

Photographer: Angela Hume

Details: Reclaimed greenhouse glass, cut and kiln formed on a burnt pine base.

500x500cm

Contact: angela.hume65@gmail.com

Artist: Elin Isaksson

Whisky glass

Photographer: Shannon Tofts

Details: Free hand blown clear glass 10 cm tall

Hand blown glass design which shows off the hot glass gathering line when you gather molten glass from the glass furnace. This line is often not seen since you normally gather glass up to the pipe when blowing an object. Here it is deliberated shown onto the piece to demonstrate how fluid the material is in its hot state when blowing glass which is normally not noticed. Simple design but very tactile and effective to show off the this amazing materiel-liquid and hard at the same time!

Contact: info@elinisaksson.com

Artist: Lynda Addison, Unique Glass Art, Helsinki, Finland

Purged into Purity

Photographer: Lynda Addison

Details: Transparent glass cube with the form of a pine cone. 60mmx60mmx20mm

Living through each Finnish winter, I see such "impurities" trapped in the ice when I walk by forest lakes or on the frozen sea shore.

Contact: lyndaaddison@hotmail.com

Artist: Julien Papillon

Winter Monsters

Photographer: Frances William

Details: lengths 20cm, width 20cm, height 30cm

Monster's etymology comes from the latin "monstrare", to show.
My Winter Monsters seek aesthetics and purity.
As ice, they produce the same pattern again and again, and they clip each other to evolve depending on the environment.
The dense base, dispersing in to the air.

Contact: julienpapillonglass@gmail.com

Artist: Johannes von Stumm

Floating Stone

Photographer: Chris Honeywell

Details: granite, glass,

53 x 20 x 10 cm,

Contact: vonstumm@aol.com

Artist: Mare Saare

Silence

Photographer: Mare Saare

Details: Glass; fused in mould and on quartz D 32 cm

Silence - total lack of sound. Trees, frozen in the snow, dreaming.

Contact: msaare@gmail.com

Artist: Green, Wendy

Ice Fibonacci Spiral

Details: 60cm high x 25cm diamater cylinder

Recycled Glass Frit

Contact: uniqueglasslondon@gmail.com

Artist: Lesley Pyke

Ice II

Photographer: Lesley Pyke

Details: Engraved Crystal Cullet

Engraved Crystal Cullet, sandblast and hand (drill) engraved.

Contact: www.lesleypyke.com

Artist: Tlws Johnson

First Frost

Photographer: John Credland (photo)

Details: Fused Glass wall Panel

46cm X 60cm
Clear window glass.

Contact: Tlws Johnson tlws.j@sky.com

Artist: Joseph Harrington

The White Place, Cast Glass, Lost Ice Process, with salt erosion.

Photographer: Sylvain Deleu

Details: 39 x 27 x 8 (cm) (wxhxd)

I interpret landscapes through exploration of material. I focus on rugged coastlines, looking at erosion as a spectacle of discovery and generation of form, revealing a sense of the history and movement of a place. The work is produced using my ‘Lost Ice Process.’ I use salt to sculpt ice as a one-off ephemeral model to take a direct cast from. The textures this provides and the transient nature of the creative process reflects the erosion and sense of time I want to represent in the landscape.

This piece is my response to visiting the 'White Place' in the New Mexico desert, as painted by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Contact: joseph@josephharrington.co.uk

Artist: Dina Priess dos Santos

Winter

Photographer: Valentini

Details: pate de verre, H10 X W25 X D23 cm

winter - one of my pieces with my own way of procucing pate de verre.
first I freeze my glass paste into form which I then sand cast.
winter in the country I originally come from.

Contact: www.dinapriessdossantos.com

Artist: Priska Jacobs

Eternal Ice: Thaw

Photographer: Priska Jacobs

Details: Loast wax cast glass in metal frame, 46x46x6

The series "Eternal Ice" examines the different textures of Ice and Snow.
This Structure is made after a thawing iceberg on the black beaches of Iceland.

This piece was inspired by a walk in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, during which we went inside a narrow tunnel that had been cut into the Grindelwald glacier. The sound wave of the loud deep groans and creaks of the glacier as it slowly moves is represented by the verre eglomise gold leaf and black porcelain line. The colour mirrors the intense blue of the opaque ice walls and roof as the sunlight filters through. The grass and soil impurities picked up and held within the glacial ice are reflected in the faults and bubbles in the clear glass.

Contact: p.r.mellor@btinternet.com

Artist: Caro Barlow

Ice on a Puddle

A panel of fused and leaded float glass, 320 x 450 mm.

Contact: carobarlow@googlemail.com

Artist: Geraldine McLoughlin

Glacial path

Details: 17 x 34.5 cms

Leaded panel of Bullseye glass, mirror and stainless steel mesh. This panel shows a small part of
a glacier taken from a holiday photo and reflects the light on ice via the mirror and rippled glass

Artist: Richard Paton

Bergs

Photographer: Richard Paton

Details: fused glass

fusible folded clear glass on fused glass light box

Contact: richard@rainbowglassstudios.co.uk

Artist: Pat Marvell

Ice-formed olive dish

Photographer: Pat Marvell

Details: 23 x 17 cms Gaffer glass

This dish was made from an ice mould. The flat mould was taken from sheet of ice textured with salt and water. Chunks of Gaffer glass were placed on this mould, then fired to form an irregular-shaped sheet. The sheet was then slumped over small pieces of ludo to form a bowl.

Contact: patmarvell@btinternet.com

Artist: Sylvie nicholls

Labyrinth

Details: Fused float glass chandelier

The glass pieces are made on temporary moulds to give interesting texture to the back resembling bubbles and droplets . They are then wired on an artist/ blacksmith made steel frame . 37 cms wide by 110 cms drop and are lit by LED bulbs.

Made: January 2015
Kilnformed and carved glass, frame and LED lights
Supporting Info: The piece is based on the lines and shapes that form in ice on shallow waters
and consists of multiple layers of glass, with LEDS used to give edge illumination to the shapes within.